Name: England’s Orpheus
Start: 2014-12-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-12-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Shoreditch Church

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Spitalfields Summer Festival

Iestyn Davies

Countertenor

Elizabeth Kenny

Lute

Instrumentalist

Singer

Soloist

England’s Orpheus

London

United Kingdom

Shoreditch Church

Public

Private

Flow My Tears

Come Again, sweet love doth now invite

Music For A While (Concert)

Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351

In Darkness Let Me Dwell

Can She Excuse My Wrongs

Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears (arranged by William Wigthorpe)

Now, O now, I needs must part

An Evening Hymn, Z.193

If Music Be the Food of Love, Z.379

Saul

Jnanakumar P

Approved

For the first night of the Winter Festival, celebrated countertenor Iestyn Davies and renowned lutenist Elizabeth Kenny invite you to join them in a transformed, candlelit Shoreditch Church for the shimmering of music for voice and lute.

Their handpicked programme touches on works by three ‘English’ composers who were praised as the ‘Orpheus of England’ by their contemporaries following their deaths: John Dowland, Henry Purcell and George Frederic Handel. Across the course of the evening, they take you through Dowland’s gentle melancholy, immortalised in his Flow My Tears, Purcell’s elegant mastery over words and music, and Handel’s dramatic flair demonstrated in his cantata Hendel, non può mia musa, to celebrate the artistry of these three composers.

English

England’s Orpheus by Dowland, J., Purcell, Händel, From (2014/2014), Shoreditch Church, London, United Kingdom

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